Leather substitute



UNITED STATES PATT FICE.

WILLIAM KING AND WILLIAM LEONARD KING, OF VICTORIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA,

v CANADA.

LEATHER SUBSTITUTE.

No Drawing.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, WILLIAM KING and be as strong and yieldable as leather.

, seed oil and cotton, hemp, jute, sisal or like fiber, properly treated will produce a substitute for leather that embodies all the desirable features of genuine leather and which also is absolutely waterproof.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented M31, 14, 1922,

Application filed October 28, 1919. Serial No. 334,091. I

The composition is then molded in the sheets I on a warm plate. The size of-the plate depends upon thesize of the sheets to be made. I

The sheets are then subjected to a hydraulic pressure, and after it has been so pressedis ready'for use. The leather substituteis particularly adaptable, for the soles, insoles and heels of shoes,-but, of course, may be used in 1" V 7 other connections.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new, is

The herein described means for producing a waterproof sole for shoes consisting of mixing and boiling A together, asphalt, leather dust, cotton fiber'and linseed oil, and thereafter subjecting the mass to a'hydraulic pressure to formthe same in a sheet/ In testimony whereof, we affix our signa-i tures. V

WILLIAM KINGe WILLIAM LEONARD KING. 

